Design Spring Boot for high availability and background work
Company: Walmart Labs
Role: Software Engineer
Category: System Design
Difficulty: medium
Interview Round: Technical Screen
### System Design (Spring Boot)
You are designing a Spring Boot application that must run reliably in production.
1. **High availability & load balancing:** How would you design a Spring Boot deployment for high availability (HA) and load balancing? Cover session management, database dependencies, deployments, and observability.
2. **Long-running tasks:** How would you handle long-running tasks so that web requests stay fast and the system remains resilient?
Quick Answer: This question evaluates a candidate's competency in designing highly available, load-balanced Spring Boot applications and architecting resilient background processing for long-running tasks, covering session management, database dependency handling, deployment strategies, and observability.